Re: Appreciation from the, 'Freedom Express'
From: Jaynie Jarvis (hipjaynie@webtv.net)
Wed Nov 29 17:39:41 2000
At Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Beverly J. Doucette wrote:
>
>I would like to express heartfelt appreciation for all the support,
>assistance and all around efforts to rally behind those of us who
>traveled to Germany last month!
>
>Words alone cannot express how we felt each and everytime we received
>words of support from back home! We knew that so many thoughts and
>prayers were with us at every moment..and that is why we always felt
>surrounded by love, security and peace as well as encouragement..as it
>is within each of those things that time and space has no bounderies!
>
>Thank-you to Pam & Bob Markford, Richard Hagen and Chrissy as well as to
>all who so diligently kept pace with reaching out to anyone needing
>support, words of encouragement and any other type of assistance needed
>right here on the International Adhesion Society board!
>
>Thank you for passing information about our experiences and surgical
>updates along to our family here on the IAS board, and for keeping us in
>the front burners of everyones thoughts, not that I think it was needed,
>as you all sure did think about all of us A LOT! really impressive to me
>to read back through here and see all your kind thoughts, your concerns,
>your prayers, your love, your interest..wow..your really some fantastic,
>well, ..cyber family!!
>
>May you all find what you gave to all of us, returned many fold to
>yourselves! :-)
>
>All those who had surgery are in the recovery stages to varying degress,
>but I am sure once they feel up to communicating they will share all
>with the IAS family!
>LOTS of GREAT news to share, lots of ARD educational things learned,
>lots of ARD discoveries made, success stories to be told, and at times
>saddness does filter in as it would with a disease of this caliber! It
>is imparative that we hear all aspects of recovery, progressive or not
>and that is why the whole stories must be shared.
>If we are to learn how to handle the challenges ARD gives us, then we
>must be willing to hear the things that make us happy as well as things
>we may not want to hear, things that may NOT make us happy!
>Not hearing them doesn't make them any less real...but we will overcome
>and deal with whatever is thrown our way, as that has become our way of
>dealing with ARD..to overcome adversity, to charge ahead...to make the
>things we don't like...DIFFERent for the next one if we at all can
>change it!! Right!!
>
>Challenges still exist for all those who went to Germany as a patient,
>BUT lots more HOPE and HELP for the life & future each went over to
>claim back for themselves with Dr. Korell has happened, no one is worse
>then before they went and most are so much better for the experience and
>surgeries!!...
>
>As you are all probabaly aware, Mary Pomroy has had a serious setback
>since returning to Canada! Mary developed a cust in her abdoman and is
>currently on Iv therepy treatment for that problem. I am unable to
>determine at this time if this will create a major setback for her yet
>as I am not sure of the location of the cyst. PLEASE keep Mary in your
>thoughts at this time!
>
>I will allow Helen Dynda, Anne Hyashi, Laura Newman and Robin Massengill
>share their own stories and recoveries once they are up to doing that. I
>know where each one stands, but it is for them to share and time for me
>to take a step back now and enjoy some family time...Please be patient
>with these ladies as they all had very serious surgeies and need a
>little time to gain strength and adjust to where they are now in their
>own lives and health! Thank-you all again!
>
>I will be assisting Helen in updating all the information on the posting
>that entails " everything you have ever wanted to know about going to
>Germany for surgery with Dr. Korell" and it will be at your fingertips
>with a click of a mouse very soon!
>
>You ALL have proved that this society can be a very effective tool in
>reaching out to ARD sufferers no matter who it is posting
>responses....your all as good as it gets here..and it has been
>perfection in my book!
>
>My Christmas wish this year is that Dr. Reich, Dr. Redan and Dr.
>Korell will follow through with the communications that will allow for
>everyone who suffer's with ARD to be able to elect to have a second look
>surgery no matter where in the world they elect to have surgery!
>I believe in this procedure so much and the procedure in and of itself
>is NOT distructive enough to create adhesions, but it IS enough to offer
>insight into how effective the first surgery was, might allow for easier
>takedown of reformed adhesions, and it sure will offer a LOT of peace of
>mind to those who have it done! And done with the most skilled surgeons
>in the world..as we have here, how could it lose at all!!
>
>I know great things are still to come for all of us who live with this
>disease..and even though today finds me better then ever after 17 months
>post adhesiolysis with Dr. Reich, what would an emergency surgery bring
>me if it were invasive? I too will always be an adhesion former..so I
>too have hopes and dreams..and wish's for a long happy healthy
>future...may GOD guide these fine surgeons, and may he continue to add
>to that list of skilled compassionate surgeons as Dr. Reich and Dr.
>Wiseman keep their promise to us..a promise to fight to open doors that
>will allow ARD suffers a real chance to get as well as one can get...a
>promis they have kept...a proimise they will continue to keep...
>
>One last posting here if you don't mind..
>Again while in Germany I became a Grandmother for the second time!
>Another Grandson, Dominic Doucette " 8# 21"...( From second son &
>daughter - in - law )
>I am not sure what makes me more tired when I make these trips, the long
>flight home or knowing I am a new grandma again:-) What a bonus to a
>wonderful life already enjoyed by me....
>
>I wish all of you here and all whom I have personally communicated with
>Blessed Holiday's, Blessed futures and only GREAT things to come in your
>heath..never, never give up, NEVER!
>I will sign off now and bid you all a good bye!
>I will hold everyone close within my heart forever!
>In peace and friendship
> Beverly Doucette 11/28/2000
Thanks so much Bev for the gleemer of hope. It came at a good time,
just got home from the doctors. We discussed the very real possiblity
of long term opiates. The other doc, Pain clinic wrote that in his
letter to.
And Welcome Home I have missed you !!! Jaynie